Gilli Fryzer

Our thanks to our stellar lineup of January #authors: Mark Jacobs, @ruthabrandt.bsky.social Tim Pears, Patricia Fuentes Burns, @kerryhp.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Lindsay Hill and @gillistories.bsky.social. We'll be sharing these #shortstories again over the next few days

#amwriting #shortstories

That is very kind of you to say so. Could I be very cheeky and beg a share? I’ve deleted my account over on the Dark Side and so I need to build an author profile all over again here! Very glad you liked it, that means a lot to me.

Really happy to have my #vspritchettshortstoryprize shortlisted story find a home with @fictivedream.bsky.social
Hope you like it. #shortstories #antihero and a big thanks to Julia Armfield for championing it.. (also - bad language alert.. sorry, that's Knipe for you)

Really looking forward to it @fictivedream.bsky.social #shortstories #antihero

If you are a white male medic with a US flag in your profile and a professed interest in God, family and the good ol’ you know where - I don’t care who you are pretending to be, you’re blocked for unoriginality 😅

Yup - I couldn’t work out why Elizabeth Strout wanted to chat via DM 😅

Very glad to hear that your life of reckless hedonism is about to recommence. More importantly I want to know where you obtained an advent calendar that still has ‘proper’ pictures behind each window.. #ifyouknowyouknow

Now begins the Long Dark. Running through it, tales strung out like a chain of lights, stories strange enough to make the bear stir in his slumber and the children gasp; while the goblin twists his beard around his knuckles as he dreams of perilous caves, and the mortal chill of gold.

And so, as the eve of Christmas draws near, old friends gather again, Baba Yaga, old Nikolai with stooped back and open sack, the swan princess. Here at last comes the tailor, arm in arm with the gnome, and the matryoshkas, giggling and blushing as they crowd towards the light of the Tree.

Humanities research matters - ‘soft’ degrees matter…

Also - just discovered that @bbciplayer.bsky.social is showing the marvellous magical Box Of Delights from 1984 - one of the library books (with The Midnight Folk) that forever taught me to look for the magic - off to binge the series 🥳😂 #childrensbooks #magic

I’ve cracked - stove lit, door barred and I’m pulling together my notes on novel 2, starring a fake medium, a timeslip baddie and an aged Greenham Common activist with a serious attitude problem - what else is there to do with my wild and precious life? (Also it’s blowing a hooley outside 😅)

Wow.

Like This or Die, by Christian Lorentzen The fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm

"Books coverage now rises or falls in the slipstream of social media. The basic imperatives of the review—analysis and evaluation—are being abandoned in favor of a nodding routine of recommendation."

#MakesYouThink #Bookish #Publishing #LiteraryCriticism

harpers.org/archive/2019...

Agreed - I’ve been checking out each follower I pick up and blocking obvious trolls - also blocking anyone whose main feed appears to be endless US politics. Curating my feed to feel like a rather chatty library with room for quirkiness and a tolerance for misfits like me. Also #glutenfree cake. 😅

Lovely ghost books - The Signalman, The Old Nurses's Story, The Leaf Sweeper

(Basically, what we're saying is, please buy books. Which is what we always say. But now especially. Thank you!!)

Well you know it’s been a long long loooong time coming with some pretty tough family stuff to derail it - and mum stuff comes first, always will. But I’m here, I’m proud and I’m pushing on. And I’m also super grateful dear Jo for your support, it’s always been there and I don’t take that lightly x

Thank you!

About to join you for first time since ever - thinking I will be inside the actual void, shouting up 😅. Hope your email box fills quickly x

Final hours of a massive 85k edit. There may be whisky in that glass. Long live tales that hug the liminal - religions, folklore, superstition - stories we tell ourselves in order to feel safe when the lights go out. This story - who knows. #ancestors #preseli #debut #books #amwriting #tylwythteg

Very impressed! First novel and hammered out on a typewriter is amazing

Wonderful

This is fascinating:

Thank you I really do x

Yes. Always.

I always think of Emile Sandé’s performance of Abide With Me at the 2012 Olympics. Astonishing.

Get to the end and save the rethinking until then!

Hello!!

Please say hello!
- when I was small I’d sit on the darkened stairs at night listening to raised voices in the kitchen. Now I write stories as slim as the yellow light under that door - the gap between what we know, and what we believe in, is where magic lies. Mid-edit on first novel #writer